www.delgadoforcongress.com/

She had us before hello. (See big, beautiful, genuine smile above).

Lacey Schwartz Delgado, Antonio’s wife and previously secret weapon, came to talk with Claverack Democrats about her husband’s campaign for Congress. Except that it’s clear that the campaign is theirs, and not just because she uses the third person when she talks about it.

These two are literally a match made in heaven. Born in the same year in the same month in te same upstate New York region within one hour of each other, they met a couple of decades later at Harvard Law. If you’re thinking Michelle and Barack, you wouldn’t be far off.

Admittedly, she wasn’t asked the hard questions about policy; Democrats are now interested only in winning the seat, for good reason. But even if I hadn’t watched her extraordinary autobiographical documentary film, “Little White Lie”, only the night before, and felt as if I had already come to know who she was, I would have been persuaded and charmed by her intelligence, warmth, and commitment to democracy and the values of real Democrats. Just as her film told me something I didn’t know about Antonio Delgado (he appears briefly, but memorably), that half hour the next morning did too.

Another real Democrat came to Claverack on Sunday. Holding his very well behaved baby with one arm, and using the other to underline rapid fire but soft-spoken remarks, Aaron Gladd, candidate for New York State Senate, was all at once nurturing father, ex-combat veteran, ex-state government veteran and rising political star. His resume for the job is impeccable—he knows in his bones the difference between a weapon of war and a hunting rifle, and he knows how to move a bill into law:

Delgado for Congress. Gladd for State Senate: https;//www.aarongladd.com

Most important mid-term election in years.

PHOTOS:
1 Lacey Schwartz Delado
2 Aaron Gladd
3 Heather Grimes
4 Tom McCarthy
5 Laura Miller
6 Henry Freedman